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NOVEMBER 15, 2013
Northwest Indian Bar Association
Application must be postmarked, e-mailed or faxed by Dec. 6, 2013.
Late or incomplete applications will not be accepted.
Available scholarships: Several $500-1,500 scholarships
Application Requirements: Preference will be given to Native Jaw
students attending a law school in one of the states served by NIBA and
law students enrolled in a Tribe from one of the states served by NIBA
who are attending a law school outside of that service area.
An applicant must be admitted to an accredited law school and intend
to work in the field of American Indian or Alaska Native law or policy
in one of the states served by NIBA.
Applicants must submit the following: 1) A completed scholarship
application form. 2) A resume. 3) Two letters of recommendation (need
not be originals; copies of recent letters submitted for law school admis
sion, other scholarships or internships are acceptable). 4) A copy of an
admission statement from an accredited law school. 5) Proof of Tribal
enrollment or affiliation. If not available, students may submit attached
declaration. ...
Mail, e-mail or fax application to Lisa L. Atkinson, Esq., 611 Main St.
Suite B-l, Edmonds, WA 98020. Ph: 425-778-2421 Fax: 425-744-0796.
E-mail: lisalatkinsonmsn.com.
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Indianpreneurship participants work
through this FREE course in a classroom
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Dinner will be provided at 5:30 p.m.
Class w ill begin at 6 p.m.
We will have a ten minute break at 7 p.m.
Classes include videos of Native American
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Grand Ronde
Beginning Wednesday Jan. 8- Marchl2 2014
5:309 p.m.
In the Education Center, 9615 Grand Ronde Road
Please pre-register with Mona Edwards
Training
MERIT offers:
Advising Access to Resources
Looking for scholarships?
There are numerous scholarship opportunities offered for students to apply to
each year. The majority of scholarships for fall termsemester are due between
January and April of each year. Don't miss your chance to apply for FREE
money for college! The Tribal Higher Education programs are here to assist
you in your application process.
You also can utilize a scholarship search engine to help you locate scholarships.
If you use a scholarship search site, be sure to read the privacy policy to ensure
you are using a site that will not sell your contact information. A recommended
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Buvness Development Center.
LIBRARY HOURS:
Monday - Friday: 9 a.m. - 6 p.m.
(closed Monday - Friday: noon - 1 p.m.)
Saturday: 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Library staff recently reorganized the adult collection holding
areas as follows:
The Native American collection was moved to the front of the
library so that it is near the culture reference center and the
culture exhibits and displays;
The fiction collection was moved to the center stacks where there
will be room to accommodate growth;
The nonfiction collection was moved to the back area shelving
that previously held the Native American collection. Nonfiction
had outgrown its space and could not accommodate growth,
which was one of the main factors in undergoing these chang
es; The reference collection was moved to shelving near the library
work desk.
These moves will take a while getting used to, so please do not
hesitate to let us know how we can help you find items in the
library.
Attention: In an effort to assist Tribal members with access
to genealogy information, there are now three locations where
documents will be available for viewing and to download onto a
personal device.
Documents are available at the Land & Culture Department,
the Tribal Library and at the Portland office. Due to many of the
documents having a significant number of pages, program staff
will not be printing copies of the documents.
Accessible documents are not certified copies and all pages
are stamped with a "copy" stamp. Land & Culture Department
Manager Jan Looking Wolf Reibach took the lead with this effort
to make the documents accessible. Our thanks go to Jan and his
staff for all the work they did with this project. Documents include
past Tribal roll and census copies.
New Library Program: The following program will be offered
monthly through December:
Native American Movie Night: First Thursday of the month
at 6 p.m. (Youth under 13 must be accompanied by parents).
Limited seating
Dec. 5 - "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee," based on the Dee
Brown book
Donations; Due to receiving two significant orders of new
collection items, Library staff has not catalogued donations this
reporting period. We appreciate all donations received and will
get to prepping and adding the items to the collection as time
permits.
Reminder: Donations must be clean; no cassettes, VHS or
mass-produced paperback books please.
Reminder: The Tribal Library is a Chemeketa Cooperative
Regional Library Services circulation site. Use your Chemeketa
Cooperative Regional Library Services library card to perform
electronic holds on resources in the 18 partner libraries and items
will be couriered here for check-out and can be checked back in
here, too.
Reminder: The Tribal Library partners with Oregon State
Library to offer "library to library" inter-library loan services.
By completing the inter-library loan form, Tribal Library patrons
may request items from Oregon State Library's collection. Oregon
State Library lending policies apply for return of items.